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Dr. Rennolds Ostrom, Professor of Pharmacology in the School of Pharmacy, will be the Faculty Fellow effective June 1, 2019. Professor Ostrom joined Chapman in 2016 after spending 13 years at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. He has developed an impressive research program focused on understanding how cAMP signaling compartments are formed and

Sarah Paik – Class of 2019 Student Pharmacist is currently in Maryland for her APPE elective rotation with the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) which is a branch within the NIH and shares her experience. “It has been pretty exciting (and very cold)! The government shutdown did make the first few weeks a little slow, but things

On February 2, 2019, Chapman University School of Pharmacy hosted over 100 guests at a Pre-Pharmacy Open House where high school students and their families learned about our 2+3 PharmD degree program. Students attended several sessions taught by our faculty in our unique classrooms at the Rinker Health Science campus. They worked with chemistry model

A collaboration involving Drs. Dan Tomaszewski and Sun Yang led to the publication of Trends in Opioid Use in Pediatric Patients in US Emergency Departments from 2006 to 2015 in JAMA Network Open. Investigators sought to answer how opioid use in pediatric patients has changed over the past 10 years and to characterize factors

Priya PatelClass of 2019 student pharmacist completed a rotation with the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in Nov. 2018 and shares her views on the experience. What interested you in pursing an APPE rotation with the Food and Drug Administration? I have always had a strong interest in the pharmaceutical industry and was

Stephanie Fukunaga, PharmD candidate, was one of 12students who received a 2018 Student Leadership Award from the California Society of Health-System Pharmacists at the Seminar 2018 meeting held in San Diego last month. The CSHP Student Leadership Award recognizes pharmacy students’ involvement in and contributions to CSHP and the profession of pharmacy. ”Stephanie contributed tremendously to

Caring for a loved one diagnosed with cancer is not easy. During their treatment and when they pass on, what are the steps for family members or caregivers in handling the toxic anti-cancer medications and containers that remain? “There are no standardized guidelines for the home setting, and that’s a problem,” says Dr. Siu Fun

A law was passed in 2013 to allow pharmacists at locations like CVS and Rite Aid to initiate therapy and dispense birth control medications WITHOUT patients first seeing a physician or other healthcare provider. The law aims to make it easier for women to get hormonal contraceptives. That 2013 law was supposed to have been